Resilience doesn’t sound like thunder – it crackles like dry leaves underfoot or hums over wires in the dead of night, waiting. In "Lightning In A Bottle," Eli Annina reaches out to this elusive voltage, siphoning its essence into three minutes and some change of atmospheric perfection. The Finnish-born, UK-based songwriter doesn't plead or break; she breathes, swims, and leaps, turning a migration into...

Trick Shooter Social Club's "Television," isn't some shiny, manufactured anthem. It's a scratched-up record, the kind you pull out after a long day where everything tasted like cardboard and feels the same kind of worn in and comfortable. This Chicago outfit, led by Larry Liss and Steve Simoncic, they’ve bottled that feeling into a song about quiet corners and the kind of love that...